[NA-Discuss] Summary Minutes NARALO Teleconference

Sun Jul 13 21:00:20 EDT 2008

Nick and all,

  Thanks for the link, but frankly I don't trust Darlene's "Take"
and have our own minuets which clearly don't fully agree with
Darlene's.  Sorry...

At-Large Staff wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Darlene Thompson was so kind as to minute today¹s NARALO teleconference. You
> can find the summary minutes and the audio file if you follow the link
> below. There are also attached to this mail.
>
> https://st.icann.org/naralo/index.cgi?14_july_2008
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Frederic Teboul
> ICANN At-Large Staff
> email: staff at atlarge.icann.org
> Minutes of Tele-Conference
> July 14, 2008
> NARALO Teleconference
>
>
> Attending:   Wendy Seltzer, Darlene Thompson, Evan Leibovitch, Alan
> Greenburg, Gareth Shearman, Seth Reiss, Frederic Teboul, Dharma Dailey
>
> 1.    Election Planning
>
> Evan¹s and Darlene¹s terms are for one year.  Formal procedures to accept
> nominations and for voting procedures need to be adopted. Frederic will be
> in charge of this and should have this ready by the end of the week.  Each
> ALS gets two votes and so do the unaffiliated individuals.
>
> 2.    Paris Briefings
>
> Some briefings have been posted already (Evan¹s and Wendy¹s) and those can
> be read.
>
> Alan will be giving his verbally: As ICANN meetings go, this was incredibly
> busy and moderately productive.  Decisions were made and things seemed to be
> moving. There was a decision on gTLDs, the Summit and on Domain Tasting.
> Things were not always decided as we might have wished but things were
> definitely moved forward.  The time was *really* crunched so ALAC and the
> Liaisons were really run off of their feet.  There were also more meetings
> that are cross-constituency that added more hours to the schedule. Feelings
> on ALAC:  they still are not making any policy decisions, even those that
> were scheduled.
>
> Wendy found it really helpful when people posted policy statements that she
> could use but we need to do more.
>
> Darlene also found this to be an extremely busy meeting and is disturbed by
> the lack of ALAC movement on any post-Paris policy matters.
>
> Evan found it to be a good bonding experience between the NARALO and the
> EURALO.  Things were able to be agreed upon and joint statements made. The
> joint sessions with SSAC, NCUC and GAC were good to put faces to names and
> to be able to improve our work with these ones.  This meeting was extremely
> compressed with very little time to chat in the hallways.  We have also
> started to turn the corner in being able to make policy statements.
>
> Alan:  We need to start making conscious decisions on which policies we wish
> to weigh in on and which we do not.  We are not doing this yet but need to.
>
>
>
>
>
> 3.    Travel Policy
>
> Soon we will only get half of the funding that ALAC needs and none for At
> Large as per what other groups get. We need to either complain and take
> action or try to figure out where the money comes from.  This motion has
> been passed but is open for comment until the end of the Paris week.  In the
> absence of comments, this will go through.  Doug Brent instituted this so
> comments should go to him but also to the board.  It doesn¹t seem that ALAC
> has been doing anything on this yet.  When Doug Brent put this forward,
> there was to be no funding for ALAC.  It¹s the Board that put ALAC back in.
> There was no public discussion on this and no opportunity to comment on this
> prior to the decision being made.
>
> We need to get a NARALO working group together on this, at a minimum.
> Gareth and Darlene are willing to work on this and take the lead on this and
> to try to bring the rest of the group into this.
>
> 4.    GNSO Improvements
>
> They have had 4-5 meetings on this so far with another few to go.  The
> positions that have been put on the table are (in part):  parity between
> registries/registrars and the commercial/non-commercial people, the business
> constituency wants more seats, etc.  The registrars with their weighted
> votes might lose half of their votes which would give more power to the
> business constituency.  Who knows what will happen at this point?  Game
> theory.  If the committee cannot come to a consensus, the board will make
> the decision for them.
>
> 5.    Public Participation
>
> We have deadlines coming up on: updates to the RAA and Presidents public
> consultation on improving institutional confidence.  These things are
> related to the JPA and to the travel policy.  This may be a good opportunity
> to make our case known because of the lack of confidence in ICANN public
> participation.  Evan will take the lead on this.
>
> Alan is coming to the conclusion that the At-Large structure as it is
> organized makes it exceedingly difficult to partake in policy discussions.
> Unless we can identify people within the RALOs and ALSs who are versant in
> various policy areas, then we will be unable to do so effectively.  We may
> never be able to succeed if we do not have these people.  We cannot continue
> to try to dumb the issues down and then try to give policy direction that
> will be useful to ICANN.
>
> Wendy thinks that there ARE some areas where the public may have input that
> we could do through polls and such.
>
> Darlene mentioned that we also need accountability with our ALAC members.
> Who is doing what?  Who is showing up to meetings?  Who is actually
> shouldering the work load?
>
> Frederic noted that of our 17 ALSs, only 7 replied to the Summit
> questionnaire and 5 to the Win-Win questionnaire.  He NEEDS more input.
>
> Also, he needs an up-to-date list of contacts for the ALSs.
>
> 6.    RAA Update
>
> We need more information on this and have requested an issues report from
> Frederic.  Evan will request more information from Danny, as well.
>
> 7.     Meeting adjourned  - on time, again!
>
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